Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal

DESCRIPTION: Spanish: "Ano de noventa y quatro en la ciudad de Mazatlan...." Bernal is a robber who steals from the rich, gives to the poor, kills the police (and uses their skin for boots). But he is killed by treachery in Mazatlan in 1894.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage outlaw robbery death police funeral
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lomax/Lomax-AmericanBalladsAndFolkSongs, pp. 368-371, "Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal" (1 text plus prose translation, 1 tune)
File: LxA368

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